The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.